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Article: To Eric I am a moral problem to be solved - and saved

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October 13, 1995
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Eric Smith, Lord Mayor of Belfast, sits in his drawing room and waves his book of scriptures, "taken from the original translation". The cameras roll. The BBC documentary series 'Spotlight' wants to know if life is better for gays in Northern Ireland or if dim prejudice remains. So, I'm queer, I'm here . . .

Eric says: "I don't hold any bitterness against any individual person who is gay." Happy day. I nod. Tight close-up. .

Eric continues: "I love them as people. I feel that what they are practising {oh,the inflection Eric gives "practising"} is wrong. I base that on the Scriptures . . .

"God condemns homosexuality. It says in Romans, Chapter I that he will damn them if they continue in ...

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